Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-03
CRIME.

were lynched at Tallulah, La, for at
tempting to commit a burglary.
CHARLES T.. PHILLIPR, President of the
defunct Columbian Bank of PHILADELPHIA,
sailed for France Saturday morning from
New York, his purpose being, as alleged,
to escape criminal prosecution for mis-
management of the bank.
AN attempt was made Sunday morning
to rob the First National Bank at Aling-
don, Ill. Cracksmen blew off the outer
doors of the vaults with dynamite, but the
safe doors resisted their efforts.
SATURDAY night at Maytown, KY, 8
party of moonshinsrs attempted to asses
sinate United States Deputy Marshal W
T. Day, who kept the party at bay with a
double-barreled gun.
MCCLELLAN, San Francisco pugilist,
recently fought with a negro canal. dig
ger, at Las Cascades, Columbia, and re-
ceived such injuries that he died few
days later.
A MASKED highwayman halted a stage
coach near Redding, Cal, and when the
stage horses became frightened and
started to rua the ropber fired, killing a
passenger, Y. Z. Henderson, prominent
citizen of Adm, Cal. Armed parties are
out in search of the robber.
LEADING officials of the Fidelity bank
of Cincinnati have been indicted for vio-
lation of the statutes at-large governing
the national banks, and for fraud. Miss
Josie Holmes, private secretary of Vice
President Harper, has been arrested aud
lodged in jail
VANDALIA, Ill. Sheriff Washburn re-
ceived telegram from Windsor, Mo.
notifying him of the recapture of Alfred
Cannon, the child murderer, who jumped
from moving train near Sedalia while
en- route from Rich Hill, Mo.
PERRY AcLELs entered the Office of May
or j. 0. French, at Maxwell, Iowa. and
shot and killed him. Then he shot T. B.
Schmetzer, but not fatally, and after pur-
suing others turned and shot himself, dy-
ing Immediately. Maxwell is small
place in Story county.
A DIABoLIoAL attempt was made at
Paris, Mich, to cremate party of thirty
Italian railroad labOrers who were asleep
in lodging house. The building was
fired and its doors were baracaded, but all
the inmates escaped. The murderous in
cendiaries were another party of 1aborers
who had quarrel with those in the burn
ed lOdgiEg house.
Az Dubuque, Iowa, Sunday night, Mrs.
Block, daughter of the late Hon. D. S.
Wilson, was chloroformed and robbed of
valuable jewelry. The burglars had sew
eral hundred dollars worth of silverware
ready to carry off, but for some reason
decam ped without it.
FRANK GERN1GoN, barber at Cairo, Ill,
fri To IA mi a NV chn
her, and then made several desperate at
tempts to commit suicide. He cut his
throat with a razor, stabbed himself with
a pair of shears, hacked his head with a
Ratchet. and then jumped into cistern.
He survived all his exertions, and was
taken to the hospital. His wife may re-
cover. Jealousy.
IsHPEMING, Mich. Charles Williams and
Jim Conkey engaged in drunken fight
in a lumber camp thirteen miles north of
this city. Williams was getting the bet
ter of the fight, when Conkey stabbed
him twice IN the left side. Williams is in
the hospital and will die. Conkey was
arrested.
CoNvIoTs in the penitentiary at Yuma,
n. S., attempted to escape. A life pris-
oner snatched a pistol frem an escaping
| CT1Q1udl. duQ Will III klll6u d mdu WHO
held and was stabbing the superintend
ent of the institution. None of the con-
spirators escaped, but two of them were
killed end three wounded, one fatally.
The super intendent was badly hurt.
Mrs. r. II. MCDONALD, JR., whose at
temp to kill her father-in-law, the presi-
dent of the Pacific bank, in San Francis
CO, caused big sensation in that city
about week ago, was given prelimin-
airy examination yesterday on the charge
OF assault with intent to commit murder,
and was held to answer in the some of
$4,000 bail.
A MAN giving the name of Keyser is
said to have swindled banker James
Dockery. of Rockford Mich, out of a
large amount, purchasing the business
and giving bogus securities. Keyser at
| tempted to work Olmstead i Storms, of
Galesburg, Mich, on the same plan, but
failed at the supreme moment. John S.
| Danford, the notorious bank robber, is
said to be Keyser's partner in his scheme.
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